08 Feb 07 9:34 pm
The content="ALL" part of the robots meta-tag is shorthand for content="index,follow" which means "index this page" and "follow links on this page".

You don't need to specify this in your meta-tags since they do all this by default anyway.

If you don't want the search engines to index your page, you change it to "noindex". If you don't want them to follow links on your page, you enter "nofollow". If you don't want them to index your page or follow your links, you can save a few characters of code by using the shorthand: 'content="NONE"'.

I would only bother with this tag if I didn't want search engines indexing the page or following links. Otherwise you can ditch it.

Thanks so much for your awesome responses to my robot tag question, I really appreciate the help.

Listen, I am trying to decide whether or not I should do my next site in HTML or CSS. Which is best for SEO or does it really matter? I am much more familiar with HTML and do understand CSS some, but am not sure which way to go.

Actually my Affilo-Bud, you are quite correct. You can only set up your pages with CSS however, I just downloaded a template and it seems like 60% of it was CSS. There was very little HTML in there. The CSS page had as much code as the HTML part did. It was very confusing because there were several different layers in there.

I messed around with it quite a bit but I don't know how to use some of it. I think I'm just going to just use CSS to set up my fonts and headers. i like being able to manipulate my pages better and easier in HTML. Although, from what I have seen CSS does save you alot of Data space.

Oh, well if anyone else wants to weigh in on this, I'd appreciate the opinions of my fellow Affilo-Buds and Budettes.

Actually my Affilo-Bud, you are quite correct. You can only set up your pages with CSS however, I just downloaded a template and it seems like 60% of it was CSS. There was very little HTML in there. The CSS page had as much code as the HTML part did. It was very confusing because there were several different layers in there.

I messed around with it quite a bit but I don't know how to use some of it. I think I'm just going to just use CSS to set up my fonts and headers. i like being able to manipulate my pages better and easier in HTML. Although, from what I have seen CSS does save you alot of Data space.

Oh, well if anyone else wants to weigh in on this, I'd appreciate the opinions of my fellow Affilo-Buds and Budettes.

God Bless and FLAME-ON

ELMO :mrgreen:

They were probably using CSS for positioning with layers and div IDs. I don't recommend that for you lol If you can learn basic CSS for styling and HTML for layout - you are ok :)

11 Feb 07 12:03 pm
Don't know about a script, but if you use the Geeklog content management system, you have those two options & a lot more
like a forum, member zone...
People can also post messages, comments on your site.

Thanks so much for your response on my query concerning meta tags and forums. I went to Geeklog but did not understand what it was for or what it did exactly. I really appreciate the help but if it doesn't tell me in basic moron language which I am fluent at, then I will not understand it.